I strongly favor you keeping your records somewhere. You may need them for legal reasons down the road. You could upload your data to a service that will store them for you, along with a working version of AC.

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "